Why Strattie

Operators wrote
the playbook.
We wrote it into software.

Most TPM platforms are enterprise software looking for a buyer. Strattie is a decades-old operating playbook, written by brand and retail leaders who did the job — now codified into software and sharpened with AI.

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Founders / operators photo — preview coming
The thesis

Software built by the industry,
not for it.

Legacy TPM was built by vendors trying to understand FMCG from the outside. Decades later, planners still leave the tool and open Excel. We think that's a product problem, not a user problem.

01

Operator DNA

Founded by people who ran trade promo at major FMCG brands and retailers in AU/NZ. Every workflow is something we've personally done at 11pm on a Sunday.

02

AI that speaks the job

Models trained on real trade promo structure — SKU hierarchies, retailer calendars, claim formats — not a generic copilot bolted onto a dashboard.

03

One system, one loop

Plan, execute, validate, report, forecast cash. One audit trail, one canonical data layer — not six apps stitched with exports.

Legacy TPM vs. Strattie

Why planners still open Excel.

It's not the dashboards. It's the joins, the lag, the claim reconciliation, and the four-to-six-month data project nobody signs up for twice.

Legacy TPM
Strattie
6-month data integration before go-live
Voir canonical layer · live in weeks
Separate apps for planning, claims, cash
One loop · Promonition + CentSense + Flowventory
Planners export to Excel for every question
Optix answers 6 KPIs in <3 seconds
3–8% of trade spend leaks in overpayments
Claims reconciles 5,000 rows in <5 min
Finance forecasts cash on a 90-day lag
CentSense turns promo plans into weekly cashflow
Operating principles

Four things we refuse to compromise on.

Every product decision runs through these four filters. They're what make Strattie feel like it was built by someone who's actually done the job.

The operator edge, measured
45min
Monday morning Excel · now replaced

Every planner we spoke to spent 45 minutes in Excel before they could answer “how did we do last month?”

User research
Strattie design partners
AU/NZ · 2024–25
What we built instead

Six KPIs, zero consolidation, under three seconds.

Optix lands you on the answer first and the pivot second. Planners stopped exporting to Excel within the first week of pilots.

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